Going digital brings tremendous benefits at no additional cost to your practice. Radiology practices and hospitals that use PACS and provide online access to images and results have made an investment in providing better service to you. And when they use Centricity PACS-IW, they are able to provide you with the ultimate service that is at the top of the industry. In a healthcare environment where numerous imaging providers use PACS, you should be referring your patients to practices and institutions that invest in only the very best solutions. These are solutions that not only enable timely and expert interpretation, but also provide the best tools for you and your needs as a referring physician.

Centricity PACS-IW provides Web-based software that allows physician offices, consulting physicians and hospital-based clinical staff to securely view imaging studies anywhere from a Web-accessible PC. With the viewer, you’ll be able to access your patients’ entire imaging history—simply by logging on to a PC. The viewer uses the same tools radiologists use for image interpretation. The tools are easy to use, yet they have significant functionality for users at all experience levels. For each imaging study, radiologists carefully select the most important images, annotate them with measurements and descriptions, and then assemble them in a key image collage to provide a visual explanation of the radiology report. The Web-based PC technology gives you tremendous flexibility by allowing you to view exams—in the privacy of your office, at your home or in the exam room for patient consultation. As patients become increasingly Internet-savvy, they will appreciate the way you have embraced the latest advances in technology. Furthermore, it also becomes a competitive advantage for your practice!

Imaging results can be sent to you via e-mail just as soon as they are available. Once you click on the e-mail link, you’ll have the option to view the final report and key images or to view the full imaging study. You can also print the report and key images. In addition, your patients will no longer need to carry cumbersome stacks of x-ray films, as convenient CDs of imaging exams are available that include the same image viewer that you can access from your PC.

Referring Physician View: Report and Key Image Collage

Outstanding Features

• Patient Jacket. Your entire patient’s history of imaging exams are available.
• Personal Worklist. Easily manage image review with individual reading tabs for each physician in your practice.
• Burn CDs. Conveniently burn CDs of your patient’s imaging exams from your office, for charts, surgical transports and additional consultations. This feature is especially convenient for elderly patients, who may have difficulty carrying and keeping track of film-based records.
• Viewer Tools. All of the basics are available, including, for example, window/level, pan and zoom. More complex tools include side-by-side study comparisons, study synchronization for slice by slice comparisons, triangulation to view regions of interest simultaneously in different spatial planes, sophisticated measurements, and much more.

How You Can Go Digital Today
It’s extremely easy to get started with Centricity PACS-IW. If imaging centers or hospitals in your area use Centricity PACS-IW, they simply need to provide you secure access to get started. That only requires an Internet connection (preferably high-speed; Cable Internet, DSL), a user-id and a password. If your preferred imaging center(s) or hospital provider(s) use an alternate PACS with not as much functionality as Centricity PACS-IW, or has not yet invested in PACS, please contact us with some information and we’ll investigate (with you) to see if there is a good fit for Centricity PACS-IW.